JK Rowling's Anti Trans Crusade
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Angst
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stuff like this is just so weird because i *think* rowling is vagely liberal as in new labor stuff save the terf stuff - which means she's angry that trump won. i think that's the point? however, she's literally herself working with people basically like trump to achieve stuff like this, so...? like i'm not being strange and leftist and calling everyone cruel things here, her circle of terfs *literally* organize with the same far right organizations that trump does, nazis to fundamentalists to proud boys etc
"it's your fault that my people won, it's bad that my people won, so you should've worked with my people, so they could've win instead"
if that sentence makes no sense, understand i don't think it makes sense either
terfs are weird man
Frankly, I can't figure out who exactly JK Rowling is addressing/targeting with that post.
If the preservation of women's and girls' rights are on her mind, shouldn't she be addressing the anti-abortion movement on the right side of the political spectrum?
If the preservation of women's and girls' rights are on her mind, shouldn't she be addressing the anti-abortion movement on the right side of the political spectrum?
You'd also expect her to speak out against cis women being harassed in public toilets because they dared to look less feminine than their fellow toilet-goers expected, but of course she turned into an shrieking "own the libs" transphobe years ago, so consistency is for the birds.
Angst
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radical feminists/terfs/w/e is basically just a one-position movement today, where the removal of trans rights and the removal of trans people supercedes all other positions. it results in strange cases where people that are otherwise vehemently left-wing or center (as rowling is) don't care about any policy or position as long as they can get rid of trans people or whatever. this is why a lot of them literally march with nazis; note that it's not all of them, which causes a lot of tension within the sphere that's invisible to outsides, because to them it's actually a real discussion whether to march with nazis or not. even ignoring the nazi thing, they organize with particularly heinous conservative think tanks and such which seek to reduce women's rights, from legal stuff, to abortion, to contraception. they organize as such as feminists. this is the degree of importance they think of trans exclusion.
here we then see a breakdown in that logic. trump is elected because trans people or whatever. and we hate trump, look what we did! since she's otherwise definitely against trump's policies as a british new labor gal. the irony of her actually organizing with trump's constitutions seems to fall flat on her.
Zardnaar
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Well real life is more grey. USA liberals have kinda hijacked the left and purity tested it.
There's odd school trade unionist type, religious PoC etc. Economically they're left wing buy they don't buy into the social stuff.
Here a lot of right wing buy into the rights Economic stuff social stuff not so much. Right wing PM passed gay marriage here.
Lexicus
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This is a good summary, I would just note that there are non-TERF radfems out there, no idea of the relative numbers (but we know the number of radfems is not that large), but just wanted to point this out, it is quite possible to be a radfem and not make hating trans women your whole thing.
Angst
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oh i know, i spoke from the assumption that radfem has mostly been coopted by terfs, as in taken over. some symbols and words just change because of this kind of behavior. i might be wrong though. was my impression a few years ago.
has literally nothing to do with my point here. you're talking about different people
Cloud_Strife
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Trans people will continue to exist long after trump and jk rowling are forgotten.
caketastydelish
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I was never a JK Rowling fan to begin with but I love how liberals adored her (she is a woman being oppressed by the patriarchy the shortened it to JK Rowling so people wouldn't know Harry Potter was written by a woman, blah blah blah) then as soon as Rowling published the slightest opinion they disagree with all of a sudden they pounce on her. In my experience right wingers are much more hesitant to attack their own kind. I think this is precisely why conservatism is on the rise in much of the western world.
Cloud_Strife
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Her "opinion" is that trans women are mentally ill men that are a danger to cis women and girls.
She deserves to be attacked for her bigotry, Nevermind her hypocrisy of supporting celebrities that HAVE harmed cis women and girls
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proof?
Cloud_Strife
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That she openly supports and funds organization's that push that line, nevermind her constant posting about my community.
This is something that isn't exactly hidden.
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well I have no idea what you're talking about. Anyway, do you plan to sue in her in a normal court or a special wizards court?
Cloud_Strife
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Of course you don't bro, that's obvious from the fact that you can't even be bothered to look at her social media output, where she talks about trans people in the most degrading ways
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Only a tiny percentage of the general population identifies as trans. less than 5 percent. That's not "transphobia' it's simply true.
Cloud_Strife
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no ****, did you read the rest or are you just being disengenuous as hell because it doesn't suit your narrative that JK rowling isn't anti-trans
Trans exclusionary radical feminists are a real tangible thing.
